My companion looked eagerly from one bed to the other, till at the end of the ward she espied, on a wretched bed, a squalid, haggard creature, writhing under the torture of disease.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The one can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation; the other is in several respects the arbiter of commerce, and in this capacity can establish markets and fairs, can regulate weights and measures, can lay embargoes for a limited time, can coin money, can authorize or prohibit the circulation of foreign coin.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The … and Miss Lamb's favourite, 'Lady Blanche and the Abbess,' commonly called 'Vanitas et Modestia' (Campanella, los. ed.), for I foresee that this Dogma will occasion a considerable call for them—let them, therefore, be ready."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Look here—you know my cousin, Lady Emily Fakenham?"
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It mought cos' mo', en it mought cos' less, ez fuh ez money is consarned.
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

But I must have the loft of my cabin large enough for several beds, as the children insisted on spending their summers with me.
— from Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

It is a two-storied, weather-board, and pale house, painted blue, with a lamp before it of many colours, large enough for half-a-dozen people to dine in.
— from A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Clacy, Charles, Mrs.

Sir 49:14 But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Among the playmates of my childhood little erotic friendships were common.
— from The World's Illusion, Volume 2 (of 2): Ruth by Jakob Wassermann